International Monetary Formats

Currency units, presentation order, and local and international symbols for currency vary greatly around the world. The monetary formats for current locale can be obtained by issuing the following command:

$ locale -ck LC_MONETARY

The following table shows monetary formats in some countries.

Locale Currency Example C - 1234.56 da_DK.UTF-8 Danish krone (kr) 1.234,56kr da_DK.ISO8859-15@euro Euro () 1.234,56 en_GB.UTF-8 Pound (£) £1,234.56 en_US.UTF-8 United States dollar ($) $1,234.56 fr_FR.UTF-8 Euro () 1 234,56 ja_JP.UTF-8 Japanese yen (¥) ¥1,235 th_TH.UTF-8 Thai Baht ( ) 1,234.56 zh_CN.UTF-8 Chinese yuan (¥) ¥1,234.56

The Euro currency is supported in all UTF-8 locales. Legacy locales based on the ISO8859-15 code set are also available and exist with @euro (e.g. da_DK.ISO8859-15@euro) variants for countries which have not adopted Euro as their currency.